Well, back in 2014, I believe we were even more divided and angry. The approval rating at that time was 9% for the president. In a country of 24 million people, anything the president said was not agreed by 20 million people. One contrast I would draw is that we said from the beginning we were not just demanding something or protesting something; rather, we were moving from the demand side to the supply side—the tech support side—by demonstrating that it is possible for people to come up with better trade-deal policy ideas instead of just the one that was being rammed through. People could come up with better thoughts on how to protect our information ecosystem from invasions by communist authoritarian ideas, and so on.

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